The Prime Minister Seduced Me to have Babies!-Chapter 739: Looting

Jiang Zhongxing glanced at the tent, clenched his teeth, and began to retreat.

With more and more soldiers, Jiang Zhongxing killed a soldier and snatched a knife, enduring several injuries before he finally escaped the Jin Army’s camp.

However, at this moment, returning to the city is not an option.

Returning would mean crossing the moat, which would undoubtedly make him an arrow target for the Jin Army.

He used Qinggong to run over ten li before stopping.

He stopped to first attend to his wounds, fortunately, they were merely flesh wounds and not life-threatening. Sprinkling White Medicine on them immediately stopped the bleeding and even lessened the pain.

Jiang Zhongxing pondered and decided to first find a nearby farmhouse to hide, and later seize the opportunity to return to the city.

The next day, notices were posted all over the palace demanding every household in the Capital City to surrender all gold, including gold jewelry, and additionally, each household must pay five taels of silver per person.

The public was stunned upon learning of the notice’s contents; with some households having four or five members, others over a dozen, who could muster up so much silver?

Under orders, people from the Inspection Bureau and Military Department quickly began to act, searching every household in the Capital City for gold and silver.

Some households truly couldn’t produce gold or silver and were beaten by people from the Inspection Bureau.

The entire Capital City was in a state of public outrage.

That morning, three people from the Inspection Bureau entered Renxin Hall.

Gu Yuheng saw them enter and immediately took out the receipt showing he had handed over the silver.

Yesterday he returned home and coincidentally encountered the Inspection Bureau collecting silver.

Gu Yuheng presented his household registry, one for himself and Gu Chuan, Uncle, Granny Tian, and the newly bought male servant, Ah Qiao, a total of five people, turned in twenty-five taels of silver.

The people from the Inspection Bureau searched the house for a while, found no gold, and then had Gu Yuheng add ten taels of silver before they left.

At this moment, Gu Yuheng took out his household registry and told the people from the Inspection Bureau, "I handed over thirty-five taels of silver yesterday, here is the receipt."

Without looking up, the people from the Inspection Bureau said, "Paid, but you still must pay more."

"Each shop along the street must pay two hundred taels of silver."

Gu Yuheng suppressed his anger and prepared to go to the backyard to get the silver.

Just then, a customer said, "Aren’t you being too excessive? This is Duke’s relative’s shop."

"This is Doctor Gu’s father."

The few people from the Inspection Bureau paused, exchanged glances, and the leader silently walked out.

The two others followed.

Duke is currently a hero in the hearts of millions of Capital City residents. If it weren’t for him leading the troops to defend the city, it might have been captured by now.

And Doctor Gu is not only highly skilled at medicine but also daring to confront the second Crown Prince of Jin Country.

If they demanded silver from this household, it would trouble their conscience.

Outside, the clerk asked the leader, "Head, every shop along the street is accounted for. How will we cover this two hundred tael shortfall? Are we going to fill it ourselves?"

The leader took a few steps, stopped, pointed at the grain shop next door, and said, "I heard this shop belongs to Grand Secretary Mr. Zhou’s family, if we take more from it, won’t that cover the deficit?" 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

After speaking, he led his men inside.

At this moment, a team arrived at the Duke Mansion.

Leading the group was the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, accompanied by a squad of Palace Guards.

The Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue waited at the door for a while until the gatekeeper’s servant reported before going in.

The servant led the team to the main hall where Lady Wu and Yun Jiao sat properly inside.

From afar, the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue greeted with a clasped fist and said, "Lady Wu, apologies."

Lady Wu continued to sit silently.